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MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Understanding ecosystem functionality, expansion and retreat of species in the Scandinavian mountain tundra under multiple drivers of change

The Fennoscandian mountain range is naturally fragmented, consisting of thousands of large and small islands of alpine tundra areas in forested landscapes. The fragmentation is expected to be magnified, driven by forecasted global warming and land use change. Upward range shifts of the forest is ...

Awarded: NOK 17.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Development, Evaluation and Application of a Nested Exposure Assessment Model for Organic Contaminants in the Nordic and Arctic Region

It is well established Nordic and Arctic environments suffer from long-range environmental transport (LRT) of various organic contaminants, e.g. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). At the same time, some areas in our region are experiencing elevated levels of such contaminants, assumed mainly a...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

14th International Arctic Ungulate Conference 2015

Arctic Ungulate Conference (AUC) er en internasjonal konferanse som arrangeres hvert fjerde år, og som tematisk omfatter alle problemstillinger knyttet til villrein/caribou, tamrein og moskus. Arrangementet går på omgang mellom landene på den nordlige halvkule som har disse artene, og samler norm...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Sammenhengen mellom arealbruk, biodiversitet og økosystemfunksjon i Serengeti-Mara økosystemet

In February 2015, the project «AfricanBioServices -Linking biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in the Great Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem - drivers of change, causalities and sustainable management strategies», where Professor Eivin Røskaft, NTNU is the main coordinator, received almost 10 ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Pollution and ecosystem adaptation to changes in the environment.

Does exposure to diffuse chemical pollution impair the ability of an ecosystem to respond to environmental fluctuations. In lakes, microscopic algae sustain the food web providing energy that support the life of superior organisms. Climate change is expected to increase intensity and frequency of...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Environmental Barcoding of Aquatic Invertebrates

Freshwater ecosystems represent an irreplaceable natural resource and are heavily influenced by human activities. These ecosystems hold almost 100 000 species, 6% of all described diversity. Many of these species are not used in monitoring programs since the identification of cryptic, diverse and...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Lakes in Transition: a Biogeochemical Modelling Approach

Compliance with water quality directives worldwide hinges on our ability to improve water quality and prevent further deterioration. The success of recent efforts to implement remediation measures in catchments, or perform lake geoengineering, is usually evaluated based on the response of ecologi...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Climatic, abiotic and biotic drivers of mercury in freshwater fish in northern ecoystems (Climer)

Mercury (Hg) pollution is a global environmental problem. Northern lakes have been contaminated with Hg from long-range transported air pollution and local industrial sources. Even though industrial emissions of Hg have been strongly reduced in Northern countries, global emissions of Hg are still...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Prosjektetableringsstøtte til AfricanBioServices

I dette prosjektet vil vi organisere et kurs i etablering og vedlikehold av en database for Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI). TAWIRI er ansvarlig for en arbeidspakke i vårt prosjekt AfricanBioServices hvor de vil samle inn og lagre de nødvendige data til prosjektet. I løpet av dette...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Contaminants in Antarctic and Arctic avian wildlife: Climatic and ecological drivers, comparative polar perspective, and effects

The Polar Regions have developed from pristine, undiscovered nature into important areas that notifies changes in the environment. This is where pollution ends up and effects of climate change are occurring first and with highest amplitude. Hazardous substances are found in all parts of the polar...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Targeted strategies for safeguarding the noble crayfish against alien and emerging threats

TARGET aimed at developing cost-effective and environmentally friendly monitoring tools and control strategies for a better protection of endangered European noble crayfish. In work-package 1 (WP1), we developed methods for simultaneous environmental DNA (eDNA) detection of noble crayfish and its...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Akershus

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Invasive freshwater fishes; dispersal vectors, impacts and management

Global biodiversity is rapidly degrading, and two of the main responsible factors are global climate change and biological invasions. Biological invasions may occur when organisms establish viable populations outside their native geographical range. Freshwater ecosystems are particularly vulnerab...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Transsystem, unified approach for global and regional integration of socialecological study toward sust. use of biodiv. and ecosys. services

Ecosystems are important assets, providing humans with services, e.g., food, flood protection and culturally relevant landscapes. But biodiversity is rapidly declining, potentially threatening ecosystem services, because an expanding global economy puts pressure on ecosystems through climate chan...

Awarded: NOK 0.42 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network

Humans affect biodiversity and ecosystems, for example through habitat changes, climate changes, pollution, and overexploitation. At the same time, biodiversity and ecosystems affect our economy and quality of life through ecosystem services. Recently, scenario-building has been used at various l...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Vestland

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Disentangling the role of salmon lice on the marine survival of Atlantic salmon (BaseLice)

Salmon lice is one of the biggest challenges for the sustainable salmonid aquaculture in Norway and internationally. This has become particularly evident the last few years as a consequence of the newly ratified management system, that divide the coast into 13 production zones where environmental...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Scenario, fishEry, ecologicAl-economic modelling and VIability nEtWork

The SEAVIEW network will reinforce and disseminate the methodological advances of the network teams regarding ecological-economic and viability modeling in support of the identification of ecosystem-based fishery and marine biodiversity scenarios and management strategies. For this, SEAVIEW will ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Salmon migrating through a maze in a changing world: building a management regime for a multi-stock system affected by mixed-stocked fishing

The river Tana support one of the largest stocks of wild Atlantic salmon in the world, with more than 1200 km accessible for ascending salmon, including nearly 30 tributaries. For many years the river catches in Tana amounted to 50 % of the Norwegian river catches and more than 20 % of the river ...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

From Fragmented to Integrated Landscape Management. Values of Green Cultural Heritage and implications for future policies and practises

The project "From Fragmented to Integrated Landscape Management. Values of Green Cultural Heritage and implications for future policies and practices" (FRAGLA) started in January 2015 and is finishing by the end of October 2018. The project is led by Professor Annegreth Dietze-Schirdewahn from Sc...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Akershus

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Heritage routes - new requirements for use of instruments and forms of collaboration in heritage management

The main objective of this research project has been to explore how heritage and cultural environments can contribute to place development and what kinds of management strategies can secure a sustainable development. The heritage routes of the Telemark Canal (Telemarkskanalen) and the pilgrim tra...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Innlandet

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Use of sensors to improve water quality monitoring and process understanding in agricultural catchments

Sensor technology used for water quality monitoring is relatively novel, and the potential uses are still not fully explored. Sensors provide high-frequency data that can be used as a substitute for traditional monitoring, and can also give improved understanding on the movement of pollutants (bo...

Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Networking: Defining Landscape Democracy - International Conference June 2015

Project summary Max 2000 ch. The current project in MILJØ2015, LAND titled: Ideals, models and practice in natural resource management includes a multidisciplinary group of researchers aiming at developing new knowledge on local management models. Included in this project's research questions are...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Nettverk- og Formidlingstiltak Nordic Environmental Social Sciences 2015

Konferansen Nordic Environmental Social Sciences (NESS) arrangeres av Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU, Institutt for geografi, NTNU, Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap, NTNU og Norsk senter for bygdeforskning. Konferansen holdes ved NTNU og går over tre dager, 9.-11. juni 20...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Formidling av friluftslivsforskning gjennom Konferansen Forskning i friluft 2015

Arrangere konferansen Forskning i friluft 2014 i Lillehammer 27. og 28. januar 2015 med minst 200 deltakere. Norsk Friluftsliv har fire ganger tidligere arrangert konferansen Forskning i friluft (1998, 2002, 2005 og 2009). Det er derfor naturlig å arranger en ny konferanse i 2015 som er Frilufts...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

JPIURBAN-Urban Europe

JPI Urban Europe: Residential segregation in five European countries: A comparative study using individualized scalable neighbourhoods

interactions between individuals who are not alike. Usually, segregation is measured and studied using predfined administrative borders, such as borders between city districts or municipalitiies. In this project, neighborhoods are defined around each individual rather than by using predefined bor...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

BiodivERsA_RESIPATH: Responses of European Forests and Society to Invasive Pathogens

The survey for Phytophthora in Glomma (baiting) in 2014, when P. gonapodyides, P. lacustris and P. plurivora were detected, was followed up by symptom inspection on trees along the river in August and September 2015. In addition to tissue samples from symptomatic trees, soil samples were taken fr...

Awarded: NOK 0.53 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Akershus

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

BiodivERsA_RESIPATH: Responses of European Forests and Society to Invasive Pathogens

As planned in the original project description, the partners completed all data sampling in summer 2016. Partner #9 (Nibio dept. of Forest Health, a dept. at Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute before 1st July 2015) coordinates WP1: Long term sustainability of tree species affected by invasi...

Awarded: NOK 0.68 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Sino-Norwegian Conference on Environment2015

The relationship between China and Norway is strained. Science Diplomacy offers the opportunities needed to maintain a dialogue and thereby re-establish our good and long-standing relationships with China. Moreover, our global environmental challenges mus t be addressed in China, as environmental...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

Tailoring the ecosystem services approach to landscape level management (TESL)

The main objective of this project has been to study how ecological, economic and social aspect of natural resources in Lofoten can be constituted as ecosystem services and in particular, what importance cultural ecosystem services can have for well-being and quality of life. We have collected da...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

CultES - Assessing spatially explicit cultural ecosystem services for adaptive management in the Alpine North

Adaptive management that takes into account cultural ecosystem services requires knowledge of what the general public and various interest groups prioritize. In CultEs, the purpose has been to evaluate novel methods for identifying the diversity of values that people attributes to nature, and whi...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

LAND: Delimiting functional management units for partially migratory deer populations (DeerUnit)

A global challenge for the management of large mammals is that current management units are typically too small to capture the entire migration cycle. Our aim was to understand the underlying of drivers migration, predict future habitat suitability of seasonal ranges under climate change, in orde...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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